Rising suns, rising daughters : gender, class and power in Japan
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Rising suns, rising daughters : gender, class and power in Japan
White Lotus , Zed Books, 2000
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太陽の娘たち
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Bibliography: p. 329-336
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Western interest in Japan has grown consistently since the war, but surprisingly little is known about Japanese women. This book explores the themes of gender and class by tracing the changing position of women through significant moments of history and into the contemporary period. Their story repudiates the commonly held view of the submissive Japanese woman, and shows how women have been active agents in constructing new identities both in family and public life. The energy of the women's liberation movement of the late twentieth century resonates with echoes of struggle and resistance from earlier times.
Japan is a unique canvas on which these dramas have been played out. Japan has been a colonial power and has also been subject to early forms of colonisation, has been both an ally and an enemy of the west, and has moved from an inward-looking society to a major player in the global political economy. Using a new conceptual framework, the authors demonstrate how gender relations are crucially related to the construction of class, and show how women and gender relations are used as a resource in the struggle for power between nations.
The contemporary material is based on detailed interviews, conducted over two decades, with women who have challenged the stereotypes normally attached to Japanese women and attained positions of influence in professional life. The authors weave together the voices and lives of these women with the analytical themes of the book. Their stories are powerful and sometimes moving, and they bring into focus the broader movements of history and culture within the experiences of individual women. The book offers an original approach to the contemporary issues of gender, class and global politics, and will appeal to both specialist and general readers.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Women and the Global Political Economy
1. The Women's Movement
2. Japan Enters Global Politics
3. Women and the Subordination of Japan
4. Creating a New Japanese Womanhood
5. Building a New Japan: Good Wives, Wise Mothers
6. Building a New Japan: Working Women
7. Conclusion to Part One
Part II: Gender, Class and Power Before the Western Intrusions
8. The Bases of Power
9. Women and Class
10. The Rise of the Military Class
11. Civil War
12. Women's Position and Social Class
13. Conclusion
Part III: Yearning for the Sky and the Stars
14. The New Woman
15. Militarist Expansionism
16. Defeat of the Militarist Project
17. The American Occupation
18. Conclusion
Part IV: Gender, Class and Power
19. Class and the Reproduction of Power
20. Employment as a Field of Power
21. Education as a Field of Power
22. The Family as a Field of Power
23. Conclusion
Part V: Becoming a Professional Woman in Japan: The Struggle for Change
24. Gendered Class Identities
25. Discourses of Gendered Class Identity
26. Regulatory Social Practices
27. Contradictions of Middle-Class Femininity
28. Conclusion
Part VI: Becoming a Professional Woman: Achieving the Right to Compete
29. Changing Subjectivities
30. Changing Social Practice
31. Changing Subjectivities
32. Women in the New Heisei Era
33. Conclusion to Part Six
Conclusion: Rising Daughters
Bibliography
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